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Sunday night is always a special evening when it comes to cooking. Not only is it the last evening before the work week where I can spend more time preparing and cooking a meal. It is also a time to enjoy some twitter chat with fellow foodies on #SundaySupper chat. Tonight they were doing recipes made or paired with wines. I had been planning on making a Korean beef dish with rice, but switched after seeing a Pappardelle dish my friend Chuck Hemann posted to his Facebook page yesterday and after noticing it was a wine theme on #SundaySupper.

Today’s Studio City Farmers’ Market had the pasta vendor there selling some freshly made Pappardelle noodles. There were also some amazingly beautiful organic local carrots too. In case you haven’t seen what a real carrot looks like; instead of all the perfectly colored and shaped carrots at the typical grocery store, here you go.

I modified a couple Pappardelle ragu recipes. Most called for a combo or some version with beef, pork, veal and even ground boar. I would’ve loved making something with all four, but I only had some grass-fed ground beef. I also went with a California Red Wine blend that added a nice rich flavor to the ragu.

In a large stockpot add the olive oil and heat on medium-high until hot then add the ground beef. Add the dried oregano, basil and some salt and pepper to taste mixing it into the ground beef in the pan. Cook for about 5-7 minutes stirring often to evenly cook and get some browning of the meat. Set cooked beef aside in a separate dish.

Do not clean the stockpot and return to the heat adding the onion, carrot, celery, garlic and chopped sage. Cook on medium-high heat for a minute then cover and cook on low heat for another 7 minutes. After vegetables have cooked return ground beef to pot.

Crush the canned tomatoes in a bowl with your hands. Pour tomatoes into pot with vegetables. Add the red wine and vegetable stock. Heat the pot to a boil and then cover reducing heat to a simmer cooking for 1 1/2 hours.

In the final 20 minutes of cooking the ragu, start the water for your noodles. When ready, add the Pappardelle noodles to the boiling water and cook accordingly. About 5 minutes for fresh and follow the directions on the package for dried noodles.

Serve with large shavings of Parmesan Reggiano cheese.

ssunithi

have some cooking wine left over after a dish I made on Sunday ! This looks like a good recipe to try out with that! Will make it with ground venison instead !! Yummy !